VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-0492
Johnathan Nightingale beep through 1.3.4, if setuid, has a race condition that allows local privilege escalation.
HIGH 7.0EPSS 1.56%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.56%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Johnathan Nightingale beep through 1.3.4, if setuid, has a race condition that allows local privilege escalation.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.0 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.56% probability · 74th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-362
- Affected
- beep project/beep · debian/debian linux
- Source
- security@debian.org
References
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00002.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2018/msg00089.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-0492Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-15Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4163Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44452/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00002.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2018/msg00089.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-0492Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-15Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4163Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44452/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.